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News Hour: Heavy drinkers who exercise are less likely to die from alcohol-related diseases than those who don’t, a study suggested on Thursday, although its authors were cautious about the implications of their data, reports BSS....

News Hour: The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday banned several key chemicals in antibacterial hand soap, warning of health risks and saying they were not more effective than ordinary soap, reports BSS. The FDA...

News Hour: A type of sugar found in some women’s breast milk which may save babies from a potentially life-threatening bacterium called Group B streptococcus which is a common cause of meningitis in newborns babies and...

News Hour: Strengthening the union level facilities to provide life-saving maternal and newborn care services can significantly improve facility-based deliveries and contribute to reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in Bangladesh. The observation was made...

News Hour: IOM Ghana’s Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) programme is helping Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to develop a Public Health Emergency Contingency Plan (PHECP) tailored for the operations and capacity of the airport. The formulation...

News Hour: Missouri Cancer Associates, the premier cancer treatment center in mid-Missouri and an affiliate of The US Oncology Network, has added another physician to the practice to meet growing demand for its services. Liana Makarian,...

News Hour: Treating people with mental ill health in hospitals with locked wards, as opposed to hospitals without locked wards, does not reduce their risk of suicide attempts or of unauthorised absence from hospital, also known...

News Hour: A humanitarian catastrophe is underway in northeastern Nigeria’s war-torn Borno State, where at least 500,000 people are in urgent need of food, medical care, water, and shelter, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without...

News Hour: The International AIDS Society (IAS) today launched a new campaign to celebrate doctors, nurses, and other frontline health workers who deliver quality integrated HIV prevention, care, and treatment services to key populations, often in...

News Hour: A paper on the impact of tobacco victim testimonials, authored by Vital Strategies’ public health communication experts, has been published in leading peer-review journal “Tobacco Control.” The paper, entitled “Raw and real: an innovative...